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Mr. McEntee was removed from the White House grounds on Monday afternoon without being allowed to collect his belongings, a White House official said. He left without his jacket, a second White House official said.

It wasn’t clear exactly why Mr. McEntee was fired on Monday. He indicated to colleagues that it was an issue in his background.

While we digest the Tillerson firing, it looks like a new Rob Porter style scandal may be percolating in the background.

New: Trump's personal aide Johnny McEntee was fired because he is currently under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security for serious financial crimes, a source familiar with his firing tells @kaitlancollins

Well of course, he has to keep them on his payroll, or then they are free to run around and tell the truth about all of the horrific things he made them do while they were his employees...can't have that now can we?

It's likely not the DHS that's investigating directly. The US Secret Service is under the DHS and investigates crimes such as bank fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, illegal financing, counterfeiting (unlikely), identity theft, and credit card fraud.

Contrast this with the report that McEntee allegedly had become very adept at forging Trump's signature, and was using this for "practical jokes inside the WH".

At what point does the "campaign" start to take on functions normally reserved to the federal gov't, like national security and law enforcement? Are the MAGAtroopers unis going to be designed by Hugo Boss too?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouveau_riche - why he's angry his family never gets invited to the "best" parties. no social graces, no cultural capital, just money - it's not good enough for rich people who feel they have achieved some sort of integrity and name for themselves - that tarnish.

I have a strong feeling this is going to turn out to be something much more damaging to Trump than the Porter scandal. They hemmed and hawed for weeks, if not months, about releasing Porter. McEntee has been at Trump’s side for freaking ever, and they didn’t even let him grab his jacket on the way out? That sounds fishy as hell.

Either he was caught red-handed leaking something to the press or he directly did something really, really fucked up to somebody in the Shite House. Definitely stay tuned on this one.

Edit: You know, I was going to fix my “White House” typo - but the Irish in me says Shite House is way more appropriate. I’m leaving it.

This was my thought, too. They marched dude out without letting him grab a damn thing? The same administration that lets people stick around for weeks after being accused of all kinds of heinous stuff? That sounds really, REALLY sketchy.

From what I've heard in the last few days, Tillerson was genuinely against the meeting with Kim Jun Un and wanted a slower diplomatic process with NK.

He's also been on record contradicting the WH on several occasions by offering more tempered statements compared to Trump and SHS and Trump has displayed frustration with that.

As shitty as a SOS he was, Tillerson was no crazy and was much more moderate in his views than say Pompeo who'd probably jerk off to videos of NK or Iran being nuked. Tillerson just had more of a business over people approach to things.

Tillerson also said that Russia interfered in the election last Friday and on Monday said that the UK spy attack was done by Russia. I think those are more likely the reasons, combined with Tillerson generally at least trying to do his job, which almost always contradicts what Trump wants.

I think Monday's comment was likely due to Tillerson feeling freed as he knew he may be getting axed. A few reporters mentioned that he met with the press at length and was unusually talkative which he hasn't in the past.

I believe the Friday comment along with his comments about NK were the reason because it was announced then that his trip to Africa was cut short.

In this case it doesn't necessarily appear so since he was rehired by the campaign. From what I remember from my experience near a clearance required area, the second you lost your clearance for any reason, you got escorted off site immediately, then the rest was sorted out.

As such this may just be related to the cleanup of security clearance issues Kelly promised.

Still, one can always hope it's more, there can never be enough nails in this administration's coffin.

Cognitive dissonance, greed, and corruption are powerful things. It would show strength of character none of them possess to admit they have been wrong, admit they have committed crimes, and agree to pay the price. Rather than be honest (foreign concept), they lie to themselves, and lie to everyone else, and keep being greedy and corrupt because that's the only possible path forward where they don't have to face a reckoning.

I truly believe if Jesus H. Christ himself was real, and he came back, with unequivocal evidence that it was indeed Jesus, and told these evangelical Christians that he can't believe they support Trump and Trump goes against everything Jesus teaches, they would not abandon Trump. He embodies a cult leader in every sense of the word.

You know how Trump is surrunded by yes men who only read him positive news, declares all negative news about him "fake" and isnt intelligent enough to make sense of most of the things happening around him?

That's what republicans do. They avoid information that contradicts their preconceived narrative that "their" president (the one with the R next to name) is a holy god and any contradicting information they face is handwaved away as "fake" or meaningless.

Who knew the reality show conman famous for saying "you're fired" would be too cowardly to fire any of his administration officials to their face? He fired Rex when he was overseas, apparently without saying a word to him.

Do you usually escort someone transitioning to the campaign off the white house grounds? Wouldn't it be easier to have him let colleagues know Friday is his last day in the WH and he's going to work for the campaign next week, instead of marching him to the curb via security? That don't smell right

I hate to say it, but Maggie Haberman is becoming more reliable at pushing out initial WH spin than Axios these days. She is a great journalist and has really dug into some good issues while maintaining great access, but the flash fire twitter analysis always sounds like its coming from some spokesperson trying to put out all the fires.

That's the only reason I can imagine this white house removing him so quickly. If it was lying to law enforcement, working in the interest of a foreign nation, or domestic abuse we know they would have waited until the media reported on it.

We all do that now. Aside from the real world ramifications for all of us other earthlings, it's the best show in town! We would like our ally back under American control when you can arrange it though mates.

So just to sum up. Within 24 hours (give or take) Betsy DeVos performs historically bad in a TV interview, proving once again that she's utterly incompetent for her position. Trump fires his personal assisent for unspecified reasons, kicking him out even without his jacket BUT hooks him up with a fat paycheck from his campaign for what clearly is to keep him quiet. Then he fires his Secretary of State for what seems to be the final straw in actually doing his damned job by mentioning Russia.

Trump then proceeds to give that job to a man who might be compromised in the whole Russia clusterfuck, and to top it up, he hires a new CIA director who's been heavily involved in torture in secret prisons abroad and who might be facing charges of crimes against humanity at international courts AND could easily end up with an Interpol warrant on her head if Germany charges her.

"WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump’s personal assistant, John McEntee, was escorted out of the White House on Monday, two senior administration officials said. The cause of the firing was an unspecified security issue, said a third White House official with knowledge of the situation.

Mr. McEntee was one of the longest-serving aides to Mr. Trump, dating back to the earliest days of the campaign when some of the only aides around the then-candidate included Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser; Stephen Miller, the president’s policy director; White House communications director Hope Hicks, who announced her resignation two weeks ago; and Dan Scavino, who is the White House director of social media.

Mr. McEntee wasn’t as well known as the others, but had been a constant presence at Mr. Trump’s side for the past three years. He made sure Mr. Trump had markers to sign autographs, delivered messages to him in the White House residence and, over the weekend, ensured that the clocks in the White House residence were adjusted for daylight-saving time.

“It’s not going to be great for morale,” one White House official said about Mr. McEntee’s departure.

Mr. McEntee was removed from the White House grounds on Monday afternoon without being allowed to collect his belongings, a White House official said. He left without his jacket, a second White House official said.

It wasn’t clear exactly why Mr. McEntee was fired on Monday. He indicated to colleagues that it was an issue in his background."

Mr. McEntee wasn’t as well known as the others, but had been a constant presence at Mr. Trump’s side for the past three years. He made sure Mr. Trump had markers to sign autographs, delivered messages to him in the White House residence and, over the weekend, ensured that the clocks in the White House residence were adjusted for daylight-saving time.

Mr. McEntee was removed from the White House grounds on Monday afternoon without being allowed to collect his belongings, a White House official said. He left without his jacket, a second White House official said.

Trump's personal aide Johnny McEntee was fired because he is currently under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security for serious financial crimes, a source familiar with his firing tells CNN

So, fired due to security issues and because of being under investigation by Homeland Security for serious financial crimes..
but absolutely good enough to work for Trump's reelection campaign. Trump hired a criminal. When it becomes known he is a criminal and is under investigation, he fires him. And then immediately rehires him. Trump's administration is a fucking joke.

Mr. McEntee wasn’t as well known as the others, but had been a constant presence at Mr. Trump’s side for the past three years. He made sure Mr. Trump had markers to sign autographs, delivered messages to him in the White House residence and, over the weekend, ensured that the clocks in the White House residence were adjusted for daylight-saving time.

how the fuck do you replace someone like that? Massive loss for the WH

When HH Holmes built his "murder mansion" in Chicago he would hire and fire the help perpetually to cover up his plan. No one could know too much to become a threat. It worked, and dozens of people lost their lives in his torture chamber before he was stopped.

Monday, he's fired because he's under investigation by homeland security for serious financial crimes. The next day he's named the new senior adviser for campaign operations for the Trump campaign. You can't make this stuff up.